Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Sara Gelser Blouin
Sponsored
Became law11
Modifies definition of "mentally incapacitated" for purposes of certain criminal statutes.
Provides that confession alone is sufficient to warrant conviction of defendant if certain conditions are met.
Establishes Quality Care Fund.
Clarifies reasonable suspicion that suspicious physical injury to child may be result of child abuse.
Allows issuance of special events license to brewery-public house licensee.
Modifies procedures related to seizure and forfeiture of criminally mistreated animals.
Creates Charitable Prescription Drug Program in State Board of Pharmacy for purpose of distributing donated prescription drugs to needy or uninsured individuals.
Increases rate of tax on distribution of moist snuff.
Prohibits person from intentionally selling or using software to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade any control or measure that ensures equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for entertainment event.
Creates Task Force on Women Veterans' Health Care.
Directs Superintendent of Public Instruction to close Oregon School for the Blind by September 1, 2009.
Passed the House2
Requires that sexually explicit property or material involving victim of criminal act remain in control of law enforcement agency or court throughout criminal proceeding.
Directs elected officials and state agencies who provide electronic information to public to provide notice of any electronic tracking feature embedded in electronic communication.
Out of committee3
Establishes Oregon traumatic brain injury strategic partnership advisory council and specifies duties.
Increases penalty for crime of strangulation under certain circumstances to maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.
Establishes tax credit of not more than $5,000 for physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner who conducts child abuse medical assessments.
In committee18
Directs Director of Transportation to issue certificate of exemption to person who presents signed statement from physician that person should be exempted from wearing motorcycle helmet.
Specifies that destruction of serial number is basis for crime of trafficking in vehicles with destroyed or altered identification numbers.
Provides that membership of person in Public Employees Retirement System may be terminated by reason of inactivity only if Public Employees Retirement Board gives notice of impending loss of membership to person.
Establishes conditions under which State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying may renew engineering certificate that has been delinquent more than five years.
Requires Department of Transportation to notify road authority 60 days prior to closing railroad-highway grade crossing.
Creates Task Force on Public Guardianships for Vulnerable Adults.
Expands duties of Long Term Care Ombudsman to include services to individuals with developmental disabilities and individuals with mental illness.
Expands definition of categorically needy persons eligible for medical assistance to include individuals with disabilities under 19 years of age.
Requires apportionments from State School Fund for kindergarten programs to be calculated based on full-day program if kindergarten student was eligible for and receiving early childhood special education by specified date.
Reinstates income tax credit for qualified adoption expenses with certain income limitations and eligibility requirements.
Creates two full-time positions in Department of Justice for purpose of performing duties of designated medical professionals.
Requires Department of Human Services to request that Department of State Police conduct state and nationwide criminal records checks on individuals providing direct care to children, elderly persons and persons with disabilities.
Creates offense of endangering child safety.
Prohibits person of any age from operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device for purpose of receiving or transmitting text communication.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to adopt rules addressing storage, transportation and use of firearms and ammunition in presence of children in foster care.
Creates Task Force on Foster Youth Access to Post-Secondary Opportunities.
Creates defense to prostitution under certain circumstances for person under 18 years of age.
Directs school districts to encourage and assist children with disabilities to participate in athletic activities that are available to children who do not have disabilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Establishes Oregon School Facilities Task Force.
Prohibits possessing, controlling or having charge of more than 50 sexually intact dogs that are two years of age or older for primary purpose of reproduction.
Modifies crime of sexual abuse in third degree to include intentionally propelling dangerous substance at another person for purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.
Requires health plans to cover services of professional counselors and marriage and family therapists if certain other services are covered by plan.
Exempts from definition of "gift," for purposes of ethics laws, specified program material, specified expenses for attendance at conference and reasonable expenses paid to public school employee for accompanying students on educational trip.
Establishes Oregon Environmental Literacy Task Force.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Allows Department of Education to award grants for school library programs.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage for hearing aids for enrollees under 18 years of age and enrollees eligible as dependents who are enrolled in accredited educational institution.
Adds pharmacists to list of public or private officials required to report child abuse.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage of human papillomavirus vaccine for female beneficiaries who are at least 11 years of age but no older than 26 years of age.
Directs Director of Housing and Community Services Department to convene interdepartmental work group within Interagency Council on Hunger and Homelessness for purpose of identifying and implementing methods to expand number of eligible taxpayers who claim specified earned income tax credits.
Permits certain health professional regulatory boards to adopt rules that permit practitioners to prescribe or dispense antibiotic drugs to partners of patient without examining partner for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Authorizes Department of Revenue, in conjunction with state agencies, boards and commissions that issue occupational or professional licenses, to develop and implement pilot project that requires licensees to demonstrate and maintain tax compliance as condition of issuance or renewal of license.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
Extends statutes of limitations for certain sex crimes if defendant is identified on basis of DNA sample comparisons.
Allows Department of Human Services to contract with victim services providers to place staff members from victim services providers at child welfare offices.
Authorizes Oregon Military Department to make payments to members of Oregon National Guard who develop cancer as result of exposure to hexavalent chromium while serving in Iraq in 2003.
Modifies definition of "child care facility" and creates definitions for "preschool recorded program" and "record" for purposes related to regulation of child care facilities.
Provides that mandate to sell gasoline blended with ethanol does not apply to gasoline with octane rating of 91 or above.
Classifies crime of assault in second degree as assault in first degree if defendant knows victim is pregnant.
Passed the House · 4
Creates offense of smoking in motor vehicle while person under age of 17 is in motor vehicle.
Transfers administration of Rural Health Services Program from Oregon Student Assistance Commission to Office of Rural Health.
Requires covered entities to report annually on system safeguards for protecting confidentiality of individually identifiable health information.
Exempts records and information that identify person as holder of or applicant for concealed handgun license from disclosure.
Out of committee · 7
Requires drug manufacturers to file with State Board of Pharmacy annual report listing compensation given or paid to physicians and nurse practitioners.
Requires driver license or identification card issued by Department of Transportation to indicate that person may not purchase alcoholic liquor if person is convicted at least two times of driving while under influence of intoxicants.
Increases income limit from 185 percent to 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines for eligibility of pregnant women for medical assistance.
Creates Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Defines "economically distressed worker training" and "eligible economically distressed workers" for purposes of unemployment insurance benefits.
Directs Department of Education to provide reimbursements to school districts that serve Oregon food products as part of United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.
Creates Task Force on Alternative Tuition Systems.
In committee · 25
Specifies amount of income from Common School Fund that Department of State Lands must transfer each calendar year to Superintendent of Public Instruction for apportionment among counties and school districts.
Establishes personal income tax credit for individuals donating certain transplanted organs during tax year.
Requires use of headlights when windshield wipers are on.
Requires Personnel Division of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules prohibiting smoking on state property and in places of employment operated by state.
Allows tenant to place political signs anywhere on space owned or leased by tenant.
Prohibits use, sale, transfer or exchange for value, for commercial purposes, of prescription drug information that identifies prescriber or subject of prescription drug order.
Changes percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Allows certain municipal corporations to publish budget summary on website.
Adds state and federal tax identification numbers to personal information subject to provisions of Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act.
Creates Drug Take Back Program in State Board of Pharmacy.
Decreases transit system fee for elderly persons or persons with disabilities if transit district receives moneys from Elderly and Disabled Special Transportation Fund.
Increases minimum age for tobacco possession from 18 years to 21 years.
Requires Department of Human Services to prepare and submit to Legislative Assembly annual report containing list of employers with employees receiving public assistance, including supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.
Exempts transferor of firearm from performing criminal history record check if purchaser or recipient has concealed handgun license.
Creates Oregon Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorder and requires commission to provide strategic plan to legislature.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Commission to allow free use of day use fee areas by persons with disabilities.
Directs Department of Human Services and Department of Education to develop strategic plan to improve transition from high school to adult living for persons with autism spectrum disorder.
Grants recipient of unemployment insurance benefits $25 weekly allowance for each dependent child living in household.
Requires Department of Revenue, in consultation with Legislative Revenue Officer, to prepare and submit reports on tax incidence to legislative committee on revenue.
Creates Construction Diversity Oversight Board and prescribes powers and duties of board.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Contractor and Workforce Diversity Pilot Program to aid in increasing diversity among contractors to which department awards public improvement contracts and among subcontractors and workers employed in connection with public improvement contracts.
Increases registration fees for certain vehicles.
Requires Department of Revenue to submit report to interim committee on revenue detailing tax payment by 150 largest employers in state.
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance Program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
Directs Department of Revenue to prepare and mail to taxpayers "Oregon Annual Review," describing how state has spent tax revenues in preceding calendar year.